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ALL PROGRESSIVE ARTISTS, CULTURAL WORKERS & ACTIVISTS
INSPIRING MUSIC, ART, CULTURE and making hope and history rhyme is our
challenge in this moment. . .
Today, a new artistic cultural worker MOVEMENT is needed! We can do this with an understanding of the present economic, racial, social and working-class crisis. A crisis caused by capitalism's greed and materialism as well as the need for justice for our people, the working class and all oppressed people. This new revolutionary cultural arts movement must reflect on our peoples' lessons of the past half-century and it must assess the strategic challenges and opportunities confronting a new generation of artists, cultural workers, activists, and organizers.
[Remember or google the" Harlem Renaissance", the 1960s-70s Black Arts Movement (aka BAM), and 1990's Malcolm X / Boogie Down /Fight the Power era, etc.]
Our people in the music, cultural and artistic community in the U.S. are part of
the oppressed sector of the global working class. In this third decade of the twenty-first century, artists must confront conditions that have the potential for advancing justice, and inspiring new music and artistic culture. These same conditions also have the ability to deepen already degenerative artistic and cultural trends with their gaping economic and racial inequality and planetary peril. Black and Brown workers have engaged in protest and organizing in ways that inspire great hope, especially since 2020.
We are angry, organizing, striking, and challenging bosses and the systemic
racism we face. There are growing examples of workers resisting, organizing, standing up, and fighting on a level we have not seen in a very long time since the 1960s. Examples range from the outrage that revitalized our fight back since George Floyd's murder; Red for Ed(ucation) and bus drivers; railroad; Amazon and Starbucks workers organizing; cafeteria, school bus drivers, teacher strikes; to the strikes at John Deere and Kellogg factories. Hopeful strategies are emerging, too. Workers are organizing against Capitalism's GREED in the automobile industry as it transitions to electric vehicles. Innovative organizing initiatives are emerging in tech, retail, banks, and other key sectors of the economy.
Where are the reciprocal musicians, artists and cultural workers uniting as a
REVOLUTIONARY NEW ARTISTIC MOVEMENT that is adding momentum to these
trends with our youth, workers, oppressed and the public? Remember artists like Aretha Franklin's "RESPECT", James Brown’s "I’m Black and I’m Proud", Gil Scott Herron’s "Winter in America"/"Johannesburg", Sam Cook’s "Change Gonna Come", Stevie Wonder's Happy Birthday (MLKing), Curtis Mayfield's "MY People Darker Than Blue", Boogie Down Productions’ " FIGHT THE POWER", Queen Latifah’s "U-N-I-T-Y”, as well as music by the FUGEES, Common, KRS-1, Filipe Fiasco and many more. Music that reminds us that the peril we find ourselves in is undeniable!
The world's capitalists are destroying the planet. The world is literally and
figuratively on fire—and flooding at the same time. The polar ice cap is melting, we face growing racist white supremacist fascist movements. Growing wealth and race inequality is exploding because of greed and materialism of capitalists and their huge multinational corporations. The super-rich are flying to space, cruising the ocean in superyachts, and buying up mountain retreats to insulate themselves from the devastation their greed is inflicting on the world. The rich and powerful are making plans to survive and prosper on a debased earth or another planet they colonize.
Before it is too late, we need to figure out how our music, art, and culture can, at
least, try to WAKE UP our people in an attempt to save the planet and organize a
REVOLUTIONARY ARTISTIC TREND ...an inspiring part of a movement of our people, workers, the exploited and oppressed.
LET' S GET ON THE RIGHT SIDE WITH HOPE & INSPIRATION. LET’S GET ON THE
RIGHT SIDE OF JUSTICE AND A BETTER WORLD...
Let’s get busy. Let us artists and cultural workers come together and talk about why we need and how we can help build a revolution that must inspire everyone with our new vision, gifts, and talents!
"Inspiring, informing, engaging, liberating"
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ELDER Angaza Sababu Laughinghouse
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